villalad21 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, Fairy In Boots said: We’ve given Southampton and Bournemouth both 6 points this season. Abysmal Truly horrendous. Unforgivable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 Unanswerable question of course, but I wonder if Dean Smith could have got a performance like that from the Watford squad? Hard to imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markavfc40 Posted February 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) I think as fans we are going to need to accept that there will be a lot of twists and turns over the next 2 and half months and shock results and ups and downs for us. Every time a result goes against us though we can't be all doom and gloom and throw the towel in. Next weekend Bournemouth go to Anfield, West Ham are away at Arsenal, Brighton are away at Wolves, Watford are at Palace. It is not unrealistic to think that by the time we play Leicester a week Monday we could be 2 points from safety with 2 games in hand. I was listening to radio 5 after today's games and they were talking about Norwich and how their fans were still 100% behind the club and manager and still believed they could survive. They said it was because they had set their exceptions at the start of the season to expect a real struggle and that is why they hadn't turned on the players or manager and were still 100% united. I hope we don't start to fracture and turn on the players and manager as if we do then we will make the task of staying up so much harder. We knew this season would be a struggle and so it has proved. Now lets do what we can do better than all the other clubs down there and be 100% behind the club and help drive it to safety. Edited February 29, 2020 by markavfc40 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerner's Driver Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 3 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Truly horrendous. Unforgivable I promise you'll get over it. Sooner than you realise. And... your wife will even wash your shitty pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 3 minutes ago, briny_ear said: Unanswerable question of course, but I wonder if Dean Smith could have got a performance like that from the Watford squad? Hard to imagine. Or put it this way does anyone think DS would ever get another PL job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwdriver Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, Fairy In Boots said: Or put it this way does anyone think DS would ever get another PL job? yeah a match day steward like his old man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Fairy In Boots said: Or put it this way does anyone think DS would ever get another PL job? Managers tend to become irrelevant when leaving Villa. Look at MON, McLeish, Sherwood, Garde, Di Matteo, Lambert. What are they up to now? Edited February 29, 2020 by villalad21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 9 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: I think as fans we are going to need to accept that there will be a lot of twists and turns over the next 2 and half months and shock results and ups and downs for us. The problem is we never seem to pull off any shock results ourselves. All the teams around us have wins against the so called top teams. We lose every single one against them, and in many cases have thrown away leads. That Arsenal game still bugs me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 8 minutes ago, Fairy In Boots said: Or put it this way does anyone think DS would ever get another PL job? No, he’ll disappear down the leagues and end up back at Walsall. The new Phil Brown, Owen Coyle, Ian Holloway etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 46 minutes ago, screwdriver said: liverpool look knackered. watford have lost delafeou first half looks like he could be out long time. Thats as massive as us loosing Grealish. Youd have thought so, but then again, he went off at 0-0 and they went on to win 3-0 without him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 You can see that Watford have realised they are in a scrap and have set up to get results be it ugly or by doing whatever it takes. They are easily the most abysmal anti-football team i have had to watch at VP this season literally wasting time embarrassingly from the moment they took the lead. They don't care as they know it gets results as often as not. They have a relegation escape plan .... Us meanwhile continue to gift teams 25 chances per game & wonder why we nearly always lose. I just hope that our manager is realising plan A is not working and has it in him to turn us into a team of whatever it takes battlers for the remaining fixtures. Sadly i don't think he has but here's hoping 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) 17 minutes ago, briny_ear said: Unanswerable question of course, but I wonder if Dean Smith could have got a performance like that from the Watford squad? Hard to imagine. He's generally a front foot manager so with Watford's pace and strength it's a good squad to take over. I certainly think he could've got them 1-0 up (as he did with us earlier this season) but you have to show good levels of tactical knowledge and game reading to see out wins and sadly as we saw at Arsenal DS really shows his inexperience in those situations. Too slow to make subs, tweak things etc to see games out. In fairness this was a bit of unique game as Watford weren't even at 1-0 for long and that totally shocked Liverpool so not a game Nigel Pearson really had to close out at all. Edited February 29, 2020 by VillaChris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 31 minutes ago, Fairy In Boots said: We’ve given Southampton and Bournemouth both 6 points this season. Abysmal I know. That's what's so infuriating. Take those points off them and give to us and were sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted February 29, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 29, 2020 9 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said: I know. That's what's so infuriating. Take those points off them and give to us and were sorted. I'm more angry with all the point losses from leading positions against good teams: Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, Spurs again from the top of my mind. That's why watching Watford beat Liverpool like that is infuriating and deflating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted February 29, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted February 29, 2020 For a bloke who has spent it sat in a hotel in London, Dean Smith seems to have gotten a lot worse as a manager today. 4 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 When I saw this thread had grown by 12 pages since I last checked it I knew It evens itself out though. We had amazing sets of results for 2 weeks running. They were all bound to get a result one week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HKP90 Posted February 29, 2020 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 29, 2020 Christ, are we the most negative despair infused fanbase in the league, or is it just this messageboard? Genuinely good luck to you, but I’m out of here until we either go down or stay up. I may also in the meantime enjoy watching football. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: The problem is we never seem to pull off any shock results ourselves. All the teams around us have wins against the so called top teams. We lose every single one against them, and in many cases have thrown away leads. That Arsenal game still bugs me. I mean a 2-0 against Everton now looks pretty impressive. 2-2 against Man Utd. 1-1 and 2-1 against a full strength Leicester in the League Cup. Picking up 4 points from 9th place Burnley. Running Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal close. It’s not like we’re incapable of beating decent sides. Edited February 29, 2020 by KentVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 So weird seeing our fans have more faith in other teams and their chances of staying up than ours. Why the hell do you even watch football if you all you do is take the most negative interpretations and positions of your own team. Couldn't be me. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, KentVillan said: I mean a 2-0 against Everton now looks pretty impressive. 2-2 against Man Utd. 1-1 and 2-1 against a full strength Leicester in the League Cup. Picking up 4 points from 9th place Burnley. Running Liverpool and Spurs close. It’s not like we’re incapable of beating decent sides. Burnley were 13th when we played them in Jan, Man utd were 11th and only had 3 more points than us at the time, We could actually have gone above them with 3 points. True Everton were actually 9th when we played them but it was the 3rd game of the season so not sure positions really mean much after 2 games, We lost to liverpool & we lost twice to spurs. Great, we knocked leicester out of the cup, shame they shat on us 4-1 at VP in the league...We are completely incapable of beating decent sides, hell we're not exactly capabable of beating shit sides either Edited February 29, 2020 by LakotaDakota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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